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GOOD TIME Q&A - BFI London Film Festival 2017
At the BFI London Film Festival screening of Good Time, we were joined on stage by director, Josh Safdie and star, Robert Pattinson for a Q&A session.
After a bank robbery goes seriously wrong, a small-time New York criminal devises a plan to spring his injured accomplice from police custody. The heist-gone-wrong scenario may be well-worn, but in the Safdie brothers' latest it's a springboard into a less familiar subgenre: the yuppie nightmare movie. Except our hero is arguably no yuppie. Constantine ‘Connie' Nikas (Robert Pattinson) is a two-bit crook whose grand designs exceed his limited abilities. As a result, a hold-up in a Queens bank descends into farce with his brother Nick (Benny Safdie), who has learning disabilities, is badly injured and under police guard. So Connie devises a new plan: he will sneak into the hospital and smuggle him out. It sounds ridiculous. And it is, as it leads to a bizarre all-night adventure that gives the film its dryly ironic title.